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侨民女性的声息:1945年以来她们在英国的生存与职责
基本信息
Linda McDowell, Migrant Women’s Voices: Talking About Life and Work in the UK Since 1945, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
骨子与作家简介
About this book
Between 1945 and the new century millions of women, including mothers and migrants, joined the labour force. These changes are brought to life through the stories of migrant women, working in factories and hospitals, banks, care homes, shops and universities over a period of 60 years.
伸开剩余64%Migrant Women's Voices is an autobiography of the post-war period as Britain became a multi-cultural society and waged work the norm for most women. McDowell illustrates the shift in migration patterns as post-imperial migrants to the UK replaced the immediate post-war pattern of migrants from war-torn Europe and who were then themselves joined by migrants from an increasingly diverse range of countries as the 20th century drew to a close.
对于本书
1945年至新世纪期间,数百万女性,包括母亲和侨民,加入了劳能源雄兵。通过侨民女性的故事,本书天真展现了她们在60年间在工场、病院、银行、养老院、商店和大学等阵势职责的资历。
《侨民女性的声息》是战后英国发展为多元文化社会、且有偿职责成为大无数女性常态的一部自传式记载。麦克说念尔描写了侨民样式的滚动:当先是来自干戈创伤的欧洲的战后侨民,随后是后帝国时辰的侨民,而在20世游记将收敛时,来自越来越多不同国度的侨民也加入其中。
About the Author
Linda McDowell is Professor of Human Geography and Professorial Fellow of St John's College, University of Oxford, UK, and Honorary Fellow of the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics, UK. She is the author of Working Bodies: Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities (2009) and Working Lives: Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945-2007 (2013). She is a Fellow of the British Academy.
对于作家
琳达·麦克说念尔是牛津大学东说念主文地舆学教育、圣约翰学院教育级扣问员云开体育,同期亦然伦敦政事经济学院性别扣问所荣誉扣问员。她著有《工作的体魄:互动服务办事与职场身份》(2009年)和《职责生存:英国的性别、侨民与办事,1945-2007》(2013年)。她是英国粹院院士。
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